Dropmysite

Dropsuite
Privately held
Industry Information technology
Founded 2012
Headquarters Singapore, Singapore
Key people
 John Fearon, Founder[1]
Ron Hart, CTO[1]
Charif El-Ansari, CEO [1]
Ridley Ruth, COO
Udit Berlia, Business Development Manager [1]
Products Dropmyemail, Dropmysite, Dropmymobile, DSE Server Backup
Website www.dropsuite.com

Dropmysite (now known as Dropsuite[2]) is a Private Limited Company in Singapore that backs up the Internet, with a focus on backing up Cloud data, such as websites, emails, databases and mobile phones. The company owns three websites: Dropmysite.com, Dropmyemail.com, and Dropmymobile.com. Dropmysite has operations in Singapore, Tokyo and Dallas.[3]

Dropmysite and Dropmyemail provide backups using users’ login information to their Cloud-based websites and email accounts. It is based on a Free Trial model[4] where users get 10GB storage per website for 30 days and 5GB per email user for 15 days.[5] Dropmysite acquired Orbitfile.com on 27 June 2012 to expand its operations in North America.[6]

Dropmymobile [7] is an app that aims to be a one-stop solution to backup everything in a smartphone. It was launched in October 2014 for all Android devices and is available on Google Play Store.[8]

Corporation

Company History

John Fearon,[9] started Dropmysite in September 2011. Dropmyemail was initially created to satisfy a client's requirement.[10]

Since September 2011, Dropmysite has 40,000 users. Dropmyemail was launched on 1 March. 2012 at DEMO Asia 2012.[11] Dropmyemail currently has over 650,000 users.[12]

Dropmysite has local offices in the US, Singapore, Japan and India.[13]

It has entered into partnership with Xpress Hosting, a web-hosting company in Mexico for getting access to 100,000 customers and 500,000 domains.[13] Dropmysite has also announced partnerships with GMO Cloud [14] and paperboy [15] in Japan.

Management team

The Management team consists of people of different continents including Asia, Africa and North America and Australia.

Investors

Dropmysite is a privately held technology startup that received seed funding for from Crystal Horse Investments, Stanley Street Labs and a few angel investors.[18]

Products

Dropmysite include the following services:

- Website & Database backup (www.dropmysite.com) - Automated website and database backup - Dropmysite provides a simple and easy to use interface for users to backup their website and database.

- Email Backup (www.dropmyemail.com) - Backup Email on the cloud - Just enter your email id and password and Dropmyemail will automatically backup your email account.

- Mobile phone backup (www.dropmymobile.com) - One App to backup them all - Dropmymobile will back up your entire mobile phone.

Technology

The backend of Dropmysite is based on Amazon AWS Infrastructure. The data is stored on Amazon S3 buckets where as the front end is run on Amazon EC2 instances. The entire web application is coded on Ruby.

Dropmysite supports backing of websites via FTP and SFTP protocol. The database backup is only supported for MySQL.[19] The files are encrypted and stored on the servers. Dropmyemail supports IMAP and POP3[20] for email backup.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Dropmysite". CrunchBase. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  2. ↑ Dropsuite. "Dropmysite Rebrands To Dropsuite, Targets Rapid Global Expansion". PRLog. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  3. ↑ "Howdy Partners! Singapore's Dropmyemail Rolls Into Texas, Opens New Office". TechinAsia.
  4. ↑ "Singapore Start-Up Cashes In on Saving Emails". Wall Street Journal Blog.
  5. ↑ Press Release, "High flying Google executive joins startup that aims to back up the Internet", 18 May 2012
  6. ↑ "Backup specialist Dropmysite buys Orbitfiles, boosting its userbase and focus on North America". The Next Web.
  7. ↑ "Dropmymobile the most secured mobile cloud solution". Dropmysite Blog.
  8. ↑ "Dropmymobile android app". Dropmysite Pte Ltd.
  9. ↑ "John Fearon: The South African start-up Entreprenuer making waves in Asia". Technology Africa. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  10. ↑ "John Fearon talks about backing up the entire web with Dropmysite, Asia's fastest growing startup". e27.sg.
  11. ↑ Press Release, "And the DEMO Asia 2012 awards go to...", 2 March 2012
  12. ↑ "Backup Your Email With DropmyEmail : 650K Users In 2 Months, 20% From India". Pluggd.in.
  13. 1 2 "Singapore website targets Latin America". Investvine.com. 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  14. ↑ "The full-scale entry into Japan for Dropmysite through partnership with GMO Cloud through cloud backup services". CNET Japan.
  15. ↑ "Lollipop adopt technology from Singapore start-up, "Dropmysite"". TechCrunch Japan.
  16. ↑ "Dropmysite gets new CEO, to launch smartphone backup service Dropmymobile". TechinAsia.
  17. ↑ "Industry backup leader, Dropmysite, hires Ex-GM of CloudFlare as COO". Dropmysite.
  18. ↑ "Dropmyemail Passes Half Million Users, is Working on Second Round of Funding". TechinAsia.
  19. ↑ "Features". Dropmysite. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
  20. ↑ "Features". Dropmyemail. Retrieved May 20, 2012.

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